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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery – Book Released
16 October 09 10:39 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of the book - The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery .  The book focuses on the change of all sciences moving from observational, to theoretical, to computational and now to the Read More...
Project Gemini – Videos available
26 August 09 07:35 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I previously posted about using Project Gemini as a tool for scientific analysis – as a quick way to learn about them and see them in action, take a look at the one minute Gemini videos by Donald Farmer .  One of the latest videos is about using Read More...
Science Analytics – look to use Project “Gemini”
21 August 09 09:34 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
When I first saw and heard details about Project “Gemini” , I was blown away by the technology and innovation created by SQL and Excel teams and that held up when I was able to test it out on my own.  It will be especially useful for scientists that Read More...
eScience Workshop 2009 – Call for Papers
06 July 09 10:48 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The 2009 eScience Workshop will be held at the Gates Center for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA,  October 15-17, 2009.  The call for papers closes on July 31, 2009 . Call for Papers We invite contributions from Read More...
WorldWide Telescope – Busy couple of weeks – NASA and SilverLight
25 March 09 01:53 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Yesterday the joint press release went out on the collaboration and Space Act Agreement we’re been working on with NASA for sometime.  We’re really excited about working with NASA to process many datasets like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Read More...
MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies
11 March 09 10:50 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, Read More...
WWT at TechFest on NYTimes.com
02 March 09 08:49 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The NYTimes.com article by Ashlee Vance , included a great picture by Stuart Isett for The New York Times showing the dome that was put together for TechFest to demonstrate the planetarium projection mode of WWT as well as the gesture interaction from Read More...
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New Tools Mobilize Local Data to Study Global Environmental Issues from Berkeley Lab
04 February 09 08:06 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Here’s a really good article from the folks at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the collaboration MSR has ongoing between LBL and the Berkeley Water Center.  It highlights the use of databases for scientific information as Catharine mentions… Read More...
WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit Release -Microsoft Research
21 January 09 02:21 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
With this ADK , users can convert their own astronomical images/data to the format that can be read by WWT and share with other WWT users.  Can’t wait to see more images/datasets made available. WorldWide Telescope Academic Development Kit, January Read More...
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Science Images in Photosynth
20 January 09 12:44 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Here are a few really good synths of scientific images in Photosynth.  You can find others using Microscopes or Biology .  And there is even a Dissected Cat if you have a strong stomach. Obelia, polyps, golangia by ppberk Micrographs of powder Read More...
GrayWulf (on SQL Server) wins SC’08 Storage Challenge
25 November 08 10:52 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Congratulations to Alex Szalay and his amazing team at JHU for winning the SC’08 Storage Challenge – with the entry GrayWulf:Scalable Clustered Architecture for Data Intensive Computing . GrayWulf – is implemented with SQL Server 2008 Abstract: Data intensive Read More...
Virtual Earth in full view
28 October 08 01:01 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Now this is a way to view Virtual Earth – talk about an immersive experience.  I would like to see how WorldWide Telescope would look on this display… PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth Multi-channel Virtual Earth Description This Read More...
Data Mining Services in the Cloud – Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time
04 September 08 12:24 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
This is great news - Software-plus-Services that any scientist/researcher could use.  The SQL Server Data Mining folks have a Data Mining Service in the cloud they are testing out…I posted previously [ OLAP and Scientific Data & Data Mining Addins Read More...
F# – Sept CTP available and units of measure checking/inference
30 August 08 10:07 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
The September 2008 CTP of F# is now available for download.  F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework and really should be looked at by scientists/researchers.  Also check out the F# Developer Center on MSDN for more info Read More...
OLAP and Scientific Data
20 August 08 03:57 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
While I’ve been pushing the ideas of using OLAP data cubes to evaluate scientific data for awhile, I thought it might be a good time to pull together some relevant papers and links. I believe OLAP is ideal to help analyze large quantities of data including Read More...
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